Baseline
Bounding box and Control Points
In this example,
the new
character will be
defined as “C” in
Arial Regular
font
6 Click Apply.
In the example below, the character “C” in Arial font is replaced with a
telephone symbol. Every time you type ”C” using the Arial font, a
telephone symbol will be used.
Using standard Arial font
The same text after the new character
has been created
 The special character specified here is used only by this program and will not
affect or be used by other applications. Also, the existing text in your
document will not be affected.
Deleting Custom Characters
1 Select the text.
2 From the Text menu, select Define Character.
3 Select the font type and style where the character was added.
4 Select the character or character code in Character.
5 Click Delete.
Working With Text Styles
You can copy text attributes and apply them to other text within your
document. You may also store text styles within a list. The text style
contains the following attributes:
• Font
• Style
• Direction
• Kerning
• Size
• Width
• Word Spacing • Line
Orientation
• Tracking
• Line Spacing
• Vertical Offset •
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• Character
Orientation
• Slant
• Justification •
Copying and Pasting Text Styles
1 Select the text with the desired attributes.
2 From the Text menu, point to Text Style and select Copy Style.
3 Select the text where the style will be applied.
4 From the Text menu, point to Text Style and select Paste
Style.
Copy Style...
...Paste Style
Storing Styles in the Style List
1 Select the text.
2 From the Text menu, point to Text Style and select Store Style.
3 Type the style name.
4 Click OK.
Applying Styles from the Style List
1 Select the text.
2 From the Text menu, point to Text Style and select Apply Style.
3 Select the style from the list.
4 Click OK.
Text Preferences (Windows Only)
1 From the Edit menu, select Preferences.
2 Select Tools tab.
3 Select Text tool from the list on left side of dialog box.
4 Adjust the following parameters:
Font Size
Select which option will be used to determine the font
size used to fit a specified text height:
Use font
height
The software sets the font size so that
the height of the bounding box of the
font matches the specified height.
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